if I thought we could build task-specific AI systems for arbitrary tasks, and only super general AI systems were dangerous, I’d be advocating really hard for sticking with task-specific AI systems and never building super general AI systems
The problem with this is that you need an AI whose task is “protect humanity from unaligned AIs”, which is already very “general” in a way (i.e. requires operating on large scales of space, time and strategy). Unless you can effectively reduce this to many “narrow” tasks which is probably not impossible but also not easy.
The problem with this is that you need an AI whose task is “protect humanity from unaligned AIs”, which is already very “general” in a way (i.e. requires operating on large scales of space, time and strategy). Unless you can effectively reduce this to many “narrow” tasks which is probably not impossible but also not easy.